buttal

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A boundary; a bound.

n. [Cf. butt, n., 5.] A corner of ground.

n. A dialectal form of butter, bittern.

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Examples

The critiques echoed those offered by others in the Democratic Party, including several members of the House, who hosted a pre-buttal conference call mocking Boehner for a lack of substantive ideas for economic recovery.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer offered a pre-buttal to the speech, writing on the White House blog that while Boehner's rhetoric "may be new, the ideas remain the same: out-of-control deficits, decreased oversight of the big Wall Street banks that helped create the financial crisis and putting special interests first by maintaining tax loopholes for corporations that ship American jobs overseas."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave a "pre-buttal" yesterday to Bush's SOTU address next Tuesday night which provided a defensive White House with an opportunity to play a little political offense.

In their “pre-buttal” to the State of the Union, they promised, among much else, that, according to House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, if they come to power, “every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years.”